Trollope's Irish Fiction : Castle Richmond and The Landleaguers

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In general, Anthony Trollope's Irish novels have been undeservedly neglected on account of their alleged "ideological naivety" ; actually the problematic descriptions of Irish characters and their difficulties in Trollope's works are often attributed to the novelist's own prejudices and tendentiousness as a middle-class Englishman. The purpose of this paper is, however, to demonstrate that this is only an aspect of Trollope's by focusing on his two works written after 1860, Castle Richmond and The Landleaguers. Indeed, the novelist's attitude towards Ireland's (often distressing) condition arguably grew more and more ambivalent in his later years. As far as the two novels above are concerned, this is closely reflected in subversive operations in the narrative through which, against the conservative, "official" voice of the narrator, the alternative, suppressed viewpoint comes to express itself and withstands or even erodes the former's authority by revealing its injustice and limitation.
2000-03-15